What if there are others stuck in the otherworld as well but teh player simply sees them as monsters. Someone else who is probably scared and searching for something carrying a gun for protection and they probably see the protagonist as a monster as well. Who knows.I think the whole idea of the monsters being real people is just silly. And a lot of times, completely implausible (nurses don't usually pack revolvers while working in a hospital)...
I don't totally agree witht the idea either but it is possible.
The Matrix is sci-fi in its purest form. It just has action in it and that makes snooty people look down on it. Anyway I would love to keep discussing this in a different thread instead of crowding this one with off topic discussion.While I agree that the Matrix is by no means on the same level as SH, it's by no means pseudo-intellectual or philosophically weak. The original movie was by all means a masterpiece, and the other two were almost as good. Yes, it suffers from being a Hollywood production, but it's probably the only movie that probably made absolutely everyone who watched it think atleast a little bit. And it does reference ideas that most people would've never heard of, like The Cave Allegory.